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I really miss egg salad. But eggs make the eczema go crazy!!! Egg salad is yummy, but it’s also convenient for lunches and snacks. I knew you could use chickpeas for an eggless salad, but it wasn’t until I smelled them after they were fully cooked did it click how much chickpeas and eggs have in common, most notably that strong sulfur smell.

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In my eat out for comfort days I could put away some Thai food! Eating at home I’ve learned how to make some of favorite “junk” foods. This has been adapted from Andie Mitchell’s book “Eating in the Middle” and while I love that she took this dish on, there are a lot of ingredients and most are not needed (like sugar and corn starch). So this is my take – if you don’t think you or your loved ones are ready to go completely noodle free, add in some rice noodles (I did that tonight just to verify and yes it was good but really not needed).

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I’ve been wanting to make a little granola snack, but quite honestly I am less than thrilled to turn my oven on in August. Cruising Instagram I spotted some no bake granola bites. This is not my recipe, but I will share it. I literally jumped up and went to make them.

Disclaimer. While making them you will call me an idiot. You will think I lied to you. In no way is what you are doing going to yield in what you were promised. Be patient and keep going, the recipe will work.

1 cup old fashioned oats

1/2 cup almond slivers or pieces

1/3 cup sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds

you can add other nuts if you so desire

few dashes of cinnamon

6 pitted dates

Put all ingredients in a food processor and just process until the heat from the processor does it’s thing and starts clumping everything together to make little chewy balls.

Then put it all on a plate or cookie sheet and clump them up in the size you want. I would not roll them, I think they are better in a jagged granola like clump instead of smooth balls but that’s up to you.

Let them sit on a cookie sheet to cool down and firm up for at least 15 minutes, longer if you’d like.

You can eat them as is, or with berries etc. You can also skip the ball part and make them into a crust of sorts. I am going to use them as a crust for berry tarts….eventually.